Toshiba NB200-10Z - 10.1in Netbook Review

I think you will find the HDD free-fall protection only works if stick to Windows OS. If it is similar to my Toshiba Portege - it is utterly useless as it freezes a Power Point presentation so I had to disable it. Similarly I do not trust Toshiba on the expected battery life, using every setting to conserve power I only got a quarter of the claimed time it also overheats badly so it has to be switched off after four hours and Toshiba service is really, really bad.

@Rich Yes the HDD protection feature does have it's shortcomings, but I'd rather have it there than not. Most of the time, we are not doing Power Point presentations, it will be handy. I've only experienced it freezing a PP when I loaded a particularly large file with embedded video, and if I shifted the netbook whilst midstream. As for battery life, not sure why yours is so low? I get close to 7.5 hours on lowest settings (6-cell). And lastly, about the heat - YES...you are right, it does get rather hot after a while...to the extent that I smell that hot-plastic smell...:-s...hasn't hurt the performance of the machine yet though, so I'll keep an open mind about it for now.

Toshiba NB200 netbook is a nice sleek laptop which comes with a ultra-portable star brand. Best part is that the the hard disk of NB200 comes with a accelerometer to detect any impact on it, read more here: http://forums.techarena.in/reviews/1240488.htm

8/10 from me I'm afraid.. It still has no built in 3G Dongle which in my opinion would really make a netbook - and they don't even have to break the bank. My ECS G10iL based Advent 4213 netbook has this built-in already. So if they can do it, why can't any of the big names. Dell has done it BUT it's locked to Vodafone.. the ECS/Advent one isn't.